Dr Fran Melhuish
@fransplains.bsky.social
Postdoc @sotonpolitics.bsky.social, interested in nostalgia, visual politics and the gothic.
"Needlessly polemical"
https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/65lr7v/doctor-francesca-melhuish
"Needlessly polemical"
https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/65lr7v/doctor-francesca-melhuish
Reposted by Dr Fran Melhuish
'Universities are communities of people and those within Scotland’s universities play a critical role in shaping our regions, our nation and our international reach and impact.'
Devolution dividend: staff matter too. A huge contrast to DfE/Jacqui Smith approach in Tuesday's testimony. 3/3
Devolution dividend: staff matter too. A huge contrast to DfE/Jacqui Smith approach in Tuesday's testimony. 3/3
November 27, 2025 at 8:00 AM
'Universities are communities of people and those within Scotland’s universities play a critical role in shaping our regions, our nation and our international reach and impact.'
Devolution dividend: staff matter too. A huge contrast to DfE/Jacqui Smith approach in Tuesday's testimony. 3/3
Devolution dividend: staff matter too. A huge contrast to DfE/Jacqui Smith approach in Tuesday's testimony. 3/3
Very many congratulations!
November 21, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Very many congratulations!
Reposted by Dr Fran Melhuish
This Anglofuturism shit is literally the opposite of Afrofuturism
Not an original point by a long shot but the way Afrofuturism is about history and how necessary it is to invent futures
Sun Ra Arkestra, with effortless ease, writing the whole history of Jazz on stage
November 9, 2025 at 11:53 AM
This Anglofuturism shit is literally the opposite of Afrofuturism
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Cat pumpkin hybrid www.instagram.com/p/CkTNgpprCsl/
October 29, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Cat pumpkin hybrid www.instagram.com/p/CkTNgpprCsl/
🤯 a veritable bounty of opportunities
September 9, 2025 at 11:01 AM
🤯 a veritable bounty of opportunities
I mean, at this point I'd take it tbh
September 9, 2025 at 9:45 AM
I mean, at this point I'd take it tbh
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in any case, as Jana points out I think it's this same phenomenon at work re: "fascism". there are some whose primary concern with labeling is to try to shape politics (we call x fascism to help defeat it) and others for whom certainty is the priority
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a.k.a. YeAH BuT is iT FaSciSM sort
August 18, 2025 at 1:43 PM
in any case, as Jana points out I think it's this same phenomenon at work re: "fascism". there are some whose primary concern with labeling is to try to shape politics (we call x fascism to help defeat it) and others for whom certainty is the priority
bsky.app/profile/unso...
bsky.app/profile/unso...